Discusses animals’ ability to learn to recognise danger, especially poisonous herbs.
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Discusses animals’ ability to learn to recognise danger, especially poisonous herbs.
Thanks EBT for gift of Anthropology [1881].
Learning by experience of others: birds being killed by telegraph wires when first set up; sheep in Australia eating poisonous plants.